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Havaleena Torch by Tayo Design Studio

Categories: Modern Decor + Objects
Havaleena Torch by Tayo Design Studio

Make any outdoor event sparkle with the Havaleena Torch, a portable and easy-to-use accessory to any modern patio, your indoor mantel piece or the great outdoors.  From the minds of Los Angeles based Tayo Design Studio , comes an elegant, versatile,  tubular,  cordless diffused lighting fixture.     Each Havaleena — Continue reading

New from urbancase: The Wallbanger!

Categories: Modern Decor + Objects
New from urbancase: The Wallbanger!

Because we don’t all have our own dedicated area for entertaining/bar needs. Because sometimes you just need a compact little jewel box of grown-up liquid goodies you can tuck away when not in use. Because you need something that can be used outside, sometimes, too. Because we bet even teetotallers — Continue reading

We Like What They Do: Foureyes Furniture

Categories: Modern Decor + Objects
We Like What They Do: Foureyes Furniture

Helmed by the plucky and witty C. Sevin (like the number “7″) Salomone (pronounced like alimony), Foureyes Furniture over in Los Angeles, California is making some pretty rockin’ furniture that’s made by hand, to your specifications, when you order it, with high-quality materials.  And we just so happen to dig — Continue reading

SALESALESALESALESALESALESALESALESALE

Categories: News + Events + Contests
SALESALESALESALESALESALESALESALESALE

Seriously! We’ve got our own March madness happening around here! We’ve got three amazing sales taking place, and we just wanted to make sure you were completely caught up because we don’t want you to miss a single deal! What sales? How about 15% off from Kartell until March 19th! — Continue reading

Down Under Modern: Peninsula House

Categories: Architecture + Interiors
Down Under Modern: Peninsula House

Boy we’re loving this Aussie example of modern home design! Located in Victoria, Australia and designed by Watson Architecture + Design the homes really sits in and respects the awesome wild surroundings of its yard. It’s also seems to have the colors of the region pulsating through its corridors. We love — Continue reading

DIY: Birch Bark Lamp

Categories: DIY + How To
DIY: Birch Bark Lamp

You know we love when the natural world can intersect with the modern design world. It just gives modern design more meaning when it has elements that come from nature or at the very least respect it. We’re enjoying very much the easy-to-make DIY project we spotted on Shelterness involving — Continue reading

Live Modern: Yo

Categories: Architecture + Interiors
Live Modern: Yo

Gray on gray on gray. Before you think this a too sad and gloomy piece of architecture, let us prove to you that it’s actually quite lovely and cheerful. Called the Yo House and located in Kanazawa, Japan and designed by ICU Architects, the home has a pretty futuristic, stark exterior — Continue reading

Interiors: Urbanspace Interiors

Categories: Architecture + Interiors
Interiors: Urbanspace Interiors

An Austin furniture store and design studio likes to mix the world’s top design brands and really sweet modern architecture to create pretty bold, inspiring spaces that are kind of rocking our faces off a bit. We like these spaces, of course, because they feature some of the most top — Continue reading

REK Coffee Table by Reinier de Jong

Categories: Modern Decor + Objects
REK Coffee Table by Reinier de Jong

REK coffee table by Rotterdam-based designer Reinier de Jong. “The piece is based on the same functional principle -– the smaller panels slide inside the bigger frame, allowing the table to grow with your needs. Built-in stops prevent you from rolling out the sliding parts too far.” For those in — Continue reading

Featured Artist: Claude Collins-Stracensky

Categories: Art + Graphics
Featured Artist: Claude Collins-Stracensky

It looks like Claude Collins-Stracensky is one of those artists who can hardly keep up with his imagination. Spanning everything from photography, to objects to exhibits, there’s one thing all of his art pieces have in common: awesomeness. You could also say his work has a very decidedly scientific, observing angle — Continue reading

Live Modern: House in Izumi-Ohmiya

Categories: Architecture + Interiors
Live Modern: House in Izumi-Ohmiya

You know when we get on a kick around here it’s hard to stop. For awhile we were obsessed with modern barn-inspired homes. And then it was homes that were named with letters of initials. Come lately it’s been homes with super ultra simple interiors, with sharp architectural angles, light — Continue reading

Dreaming I was there: Astarte Suites, Santorini island

Categories: Architecture + Interiors
Dreaming I was there: Astarte Suites, Santorini island

The beautiful island of Santorini in Greece is home to Astarte Suites, a small and intimate boutique hotel of just nine suites. Sitting literally on the brink of a cliff-edge in Akrotiri’s Caldera, Astarte boasts spectacular panoramic views across of Aegean Sea. 

The suites

Cycladic architecture and a style that is — Continue reading

Dorothea Lange by Sergio Daniel García

Categories: Art + Graphics
Dorothea Lange by Sergio Daniel García

Dorothea Lange. “Influential documentary photojournalist”. Concept: The humanists photographs of Lange about the terrible consequences of the great depression were studied deeply. Lange changed the study photo for the street. Their studies of unemployed and homeless captured soon the attention of local photographers and led it to be contracted by — Continue reading

PrintedArt.com Photographer’s Choice: Diane Modafferi’s Top Five List

Categories: Art + Graphics
PrintedArt.com Photographer’s Choice: Diane Modafferi’s Top Five List

Today we feature the picks of Diane Modafferi. Modafferi is an LA-based photographer who is trained in art, photography, and film production. She shoots a wide range of subjects with her favorite being scenic landscapes and sports. She enjoys creating longer exposures to capture light and movement within a still — Continue reading

4 DIY Projects to do THIS weekend (with minimal saw dust involved)

Categories: DIY + How To
4 DIY Projects to do THIS weekend (with minimal saw dust involved)

Perhaps we were feeling a little burnt out on huge, complicated, lots of tools-needed projects, because this week we posted about a lot of sweet, even functional projects that genuinely could be made with hardly any mess and not even a lot of materials. Now that’s what we’re talking about! — Continue reading

Matteo Cibic’s Microrealities

Categories: Art + Graphics
Matteo Cibic’s Microrealities

How we missed this adorableness and cleverness when it first came out years ago in 2004 is beyond us, but it’s so cute and the weather is so nice out where we are right now and hey it’s Friday, so why not post cute photos of alternate micro-realities to cheer — Continue reading

Live Modern: Page Road Residence

Categories: Architecture + Interiors
Live Modern: Page Road Residence

Ooh what a cheery house! We bet even on a gray day a house like this would still be full of people with the most pleasant of personalities and moods. Why? Well that gorgeous yellow-tinted exterior probably wouldn’t hurt. And all the gorgeous multitudes of wood tones, bold colors, soft — Continue reading

Maffam Freeform’s basalt fiber furniture

Categories: Modern Decor + Objects, Sustainability
Maffam Freeform’s basalt fiber furniture

Maffam Freeform is a workshop of the Latvian interior designer Raimonds Cirulis, creating unique items from basalt fibers bonded with eco-resins – true synthesis of art and technology. In 2011, Maffam products have become more recognized by the crafstmen both in Latvia and abroad. Each item is one-of-a-kind, practical, and — Continue reading

A Modern Austin City Guide (Updated!)

Categories: Local + Travel
A Modern Austin City Guide (Updated!)

Last year we, if we may admit, rocked your socks off with a 2Modern (Modern) Austin City Guide that was filled to the brim with our suggestions of where to eat, where to shop and where to sleep if you were looking to experience some of Austin’s sleekest and most modern — Continue reading

Interiors: 459 West 18th

Categories: Architecture + Interiors
Interiors: 459 West 18th

So unless you are rich/lucky enough to live in this fancy New York City apartment, you probably won’t get to see these kinds of views/window placements/angles. But, they sure are fun to drool over and enjoy, mais no? We’ve been pretty captivated by really monotone, neutral spaces lately. We love — Continue reading